2015-03-26 Evening: coeducation/gender segregation

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 26-32 reading - A, B, C
part A
1 Women went from being educated only in “women’s topics” to being educated in coed schools with men.
2 math and science (STEM - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)
3 Most of the studies don’t correct for things like socioeconomic status and other privileges.
4 Only as the sexes have become less separate have women become more free. (“Separate but equal” doesn’t exist.)
http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml (type a short explanation of the word you want, and it will give you a list of words with that meaning)
part B
1 c
2 b
3 a
4 (none of them, really) - more women than men were graduating high school, but we don’t know that they were attending college
5 c
6 c
7 c
8 b
9 c
10 c
11 a
12 b
13 b
affirmative action: taking action to help members of underrepresented groups (for example, offering incentives for women to enter male-dominated fields)
part C
1 born with qualities (“given”, for example by God)
2 order or command
3 advocates
4 do
5 general agreement
6 open to doubt
7 later
8 mutual relationship
9 causing something to happen
10 equality
11 set in a way of doing things
12 relying on observation and experience
de facto - when something happens in reality, whether or not there’s a law about it
de jure - when something happens officially by law
wage gap - the gap between the average earnings of men and women
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p. 23 - answer the questions about the main ideas of the listening
1 Single-sex education is not the best solution to girls’ problems with education.
2 They have different learning styles, different value systems, and different cultural messages.
3 She disagrees (with the more recent report), because some girls will always do better in female-only classes.
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p. 24: are these the ideas of the commentator (the woman speaking) herself?
1 not her idea, but it does support her position
2 no
3 yes (the man tells us about it, but it’s her idea)
4 yes
5 no
6 no
7 no
8 no
9 no
10 yes
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p. 24-26: complete the commentary with the correct words
1 shortchanged
2 overall
3 support
4 swipe
5 consistently
6 warrant
7 adolescent
8 absorb
9 self-confidence
10 prevent
11 foster
12 beyond
13 alma
14 mater
15 electing
16 placement
17 renewed
18 way
19 costly
20 forgoing (= skipping, passing up, not having)
21 make
22 parochial
23 experiments
24 blossom
25 worth
26 They’re
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Homework: Make a list of things that you think should be segregated by gender or at least have some benefits being separated (possibly including education). Think of some possible problems with that separation.
List other possible reasons to segregate people (such as race, religion, education level, age).